digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
I wanted to post current information about our portfolios: Botanique, Monochromatic Visions and Following the Kumano kodo. I am very excited that both Botanique and Monochromatic Visions were featured in Fine Art…
Rain in California this spring has been sorely needed. It has fallen intermittently and blessedly heavy at times---but never enough to stop the drought or replenish the reservoirs. After one…
Photography is the art and craft of capturing light, whether via silver halide chemistry on film, or via silicon on a sensor array. "Capturing light" is probably the key part…
I've been looking through my archives from last year in Paris---and finding many images that I want to process! Looking back at the crop from the spring of last year…
I was struck by the regularity in this apartment building. Nobody had planters out, no bikes were stored, and old shoes weren't resting in the window embrasures. This kind of…
Contrary to common cliché, the colors of nature are not always beautiful. But in the case of flowers, colors are almost always beautiful to human eyes. True, flowers need to…
I'm really pleased with my new page as a sponsored photographer on the Zeiss Camera Lens Ambassador site. Check it out: http://www.zeiss.com/camera-lenses/en_us/ambassadors/harold_davis.html. Related link: Otus & me (an informal review).
Sunday in the Park with George. "George" in this case was my Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 lens. The park is Square Jean XXIII, just behind Notre Dame in Paris, on a…
An important part of the gentle art of photographic composition is to recognize that we are rendering a three-dimensional world, in part by presenting it within a two-dimensional frame. An…
I'm really pleased to note a new professionally-made video from Awagami about photographers who print on Awagami washi that shows my Botanique. The video can be played below, embedded from…
At a recent lunch with my brother he reminded me how we both benefited from a classical education in the arts when we were young. I may not have got…
To celebrate the spring equinox yesterday, here are some Tulips and Anemones shot on my light box for translucency (a white ranunculus peeks through on the upper left as well!).…
Danielle Wohl, an art consultant based in Palo Alto, California, has curated a different version of my work on her website. These are not the translucent florals on washi or…
I've posted a new informal review of my Zeiss Otus 1.4/55 on Photo.net. My conclusion: "If you can afford it, and if you can work with manual focus (which is…
Spring has come, and I know it's true because I have anemones and ranunculae to add to my tulips on my light box for back lighting. Fun to create a…
The Berkeley, California Pier juts out 3,000 feet into San Francisco Bay. When originally constructed in the 1920s, the pier was over three miles long, and an integral part of…
Best Of Botanicals: National Juried Photography Exhibition A Benefit for San Francisco Botanical Garden Call for entries. Entries are due: April 3, 2014 From classical to contemporary, from desert to rain forest, from bud to decay, the natural form…